The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, as per Alfred Nobel's will, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm.

Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.

German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld holds the record for the most nominations (84) for the Nobel Prize in Physics without winning.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (1917, 1944, and 1963).

The Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was established by Sweden's central bank in 1968.

Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes: Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962.

Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

The original categories were Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. Economics was added later in 1968.

French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, as he consistently declined all official honors.

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was established in 1968 by Sweden's central bank and first awarded in 1969.

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.

Due to the Second World War, most Nobel Prize categories were not awarded between 1940 and 1942.

According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a prize amount may be equally divided between two works or shared among up to three people.

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes which are presented in Stockholm, the Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Oslo, Norway, as per Alfred Nobel's will.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays.

Frederick Sanger won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980, both of which were unshared.

Since 1980, the Nobel Prize medals have been struck in 18-karat green gold and plated with 24-karat gold.

Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher, established the Pulitzer Prizes in his will to honor excellence in journalism, literature, and music.